Thomas Orgeval Blog posts and lab notes from thomasorgeval.com. https://thomasorgeval.com/ en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cutting BigQuery cost on a Firebase stack without slowing the product down A practical FinOps case study on reducing BigQuery scan cost by moving the right reads off Firestore exports, simplifying joins, and debouncing search-heavy paths. https://thomasorgeval.com/blog/firebase-bigquery-finops/ https://thomasorgeval.com/blog/firebase-bigquery-finops/ blog Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Idempotent VPS hardening with Ansible A practical, reusable baseline to provision and harden Linux VPS instances with Ansible, then keep them updated automatically. https://thomasorgeval.com/blog/hardening-vps-with-ansible/ https://thomasorgeval.com/blog/hardening-vps-with-ansible/ blog Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Homelab and IaC playground A personal infrastructure lab that evolved into a reproducible production baseline; secure VPS setup in under 15 minutes, then weekly maintenance on autopilot. https://thomasorgeval.com/projects/homelab-and-iac/ https://thomasorgeval.com/projects/homelab-and-iac/ lab Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT